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People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Migratory birds connect people, ecosystems, and nations. They are symbols of peace and of an interconnected planet.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For many people, Timbuktu has long represented the essence of remoteness: a mythical, faraway place located on the boundaries of our collective consciousness. But like many of the myths associated with colonialism, the reality is very different.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
If resources become scarce, people tend to fight for them. This is increasing the number of people on the move and the number of people forced to move. They're not refugees, according to the legal definition, but they represent a major humanitarian and human rights challenge, as well as a major challenge for world politics.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.
- Lead
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.
- Nov 07, 2020
My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I ran the first time in 2001, they called me 'The Latino Mayor.' By the time I left in 2013, with a 58 percent approval rating, half the people liked me, half the people didn't. I was everybody's mayor. There was never any criticism that I was just for one group.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020